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GitHub Actions Went Down for Three Hours and Told Developers Their Accounts Were Suspended
GitHub Actions experienced an outage lasting over three hours on May 26, disrupting CI/CD workflows for developers worldwide and displaying a misleading "Your account is suspended" error message, which caused additional alarm given how difficult real account suspensions can be to resolve. The outage, attributed to authentication issues, was particularly disruptive because even customers using external or self-hosted runners were affected, as GitHub's cloud service acts as the control plane. Despite recurring reliability problems this year, GitHub's platform continues to grow rapidly, with Actions usage more than doubling since 2023, largely driven by the surge in AI-generated code.
Megalodon Attack Poisons Thousands of GitHub Repos via CI/CD Hijacking
Someone has been systematically targeting GitHub repositories at scale.